<h3 style="text-align: center;">Miami Rails Visiting Writers Program</h3>
Navigating the social and economic structures of the contemporary art world, critic and activist Ben Davis--the Miami Rail's Visiting Writer for our Summer 2015 issue-- spoke about his acclaimed book, 9.5 Theses on Art and Class, and other recent work.

Ben Davis is an art critic living and working in New York City. He is currently National Art Critic for artnet News, and critic-in-residence at Montclair State University. He was formerly executive editor of Artinfo.com and one of the editors of The Elements of Architecture, the catalogue for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. His writings have appeared in Adbusters, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, New York, Slate.com, The Village Voice and many other venues. He is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Haymarket, 2013), which was nominated for Best Work of Criticism by the International Association of Art Critics, and was mentioned as one of the art books of 2013 by Verso Books, Frieze.com, The Progressive, The Village Voice, and several other publications. Reviewing the book, The Stranger wrote, "We should hold town halls on this book."